Editing Air Labrador (section)

== History ==
The airline was established and started operations in 1948, as '''Newfoundland Airways''' operating float-equipped aircraft from a base in [[Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador|Gander]], Newfoundland on charter, mail and freight work to northern Newfoundland and Labrador. Since then the base of the company has moved to Goose Bay. It was purchased in 1983 by Provincial Investments Inc., owned by Roger Pike, along with associate company, Labrador Aviation Services Ltd. Air Labrador was owned by the Pike Family, but then taken over by Philip Earle in 2010. Air Labrador conducted a [[fantasy flight]] in the 1990s with a [[Santa Claus]] visit on board while it [[taxiing|taxied]] the [[Airport apron|tarmac]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KXR0M761B0| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129123747/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KXR0M761B0| archive-date=2016-01-29 | url-status=dead|title=Flight to the North Pole| website=[[YouTube]] |date=2007-12-17|access-date=2009-10-18}}</ref> In March 2009, the company announced they were ceasing flight service to Montreal due to financial trouble. Airline service ended in Newfoundland in May 2009, two months after announcing the shut down of Montreal operations. The airline later continued to fly within [[Labrador]] and [[Quebec]], as well as [[St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador]] until its merger in 2017.

On February 3, 2012, the company announced that the [[Nunatsiavut]] Government had bought a 51% share in Air Labrador.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/inuit-company-buys-controlling-stake-in-air-labrador-1.1252835|title=Inuit company buys controlling stake in Air Labrador; CBC News|date=2012-02-04|access-date=2012-02-05}}</ref>

In June 2017 Air Labrador merged with [[Provincial Airlines|Innu Mikun Airlines]] to form [[Air Borealis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/new-labrador-airline-air-borealis-1.4163935|title=Innu, Inuit join forces to create new airline for Labrador|date=2017-06-16|access-date=2017-09-16}}</ref>